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Latitude: 53.1946 / 53°11'40"N
Longitude: -2.9 / 2°54'0"W
OS Eastings: 339967
OS Northings: 366763
OS Grid: SJ399667
Mapcode National: GBR 79.2Q34
Mapcode Global: WH887.FY8W
Plus Code: 9C5V53VX+RX
Entry Name: Graving Lock on Canal Link to River Dee
Listing Date: 3 June 1988
Last Amended: 23 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375932
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469911
ID on this website: 101375932
Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Garden Quarter
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St Oswald and St Thomas of Canterbury
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Lock
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CHESTER CITY (EM)
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
Graving Lock on Canal link to River Dee
(Formerly Listed as: WHIPCORD LANE Graving Lock)
II
Broad lock. Early-mid C19. Brick. Designed to convey "Mersey flats" between the Dee at Crane Wharf and Chester Basin. Lock chamber of brick with massive sandstone blocks to corners of lock-gate recesses. Pairs of timber lock gates, repaired; upper end to lock chamber is segmental in plan; steel-lined grooves to take planks of wood so that a boat can be supported on them to grave its bottom or do other small repairs to the boat; outlet from sluiceway from adjacent dry dock (qv) has roughly-shaped stone quoins and segmental brick arch. Brick-and-sandstone walls to lower entrance to lock. Replaced broad footbridge across lock.
Listing NGR: SJ3996766763
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